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Published May 15, 2008 03:23 pm - The Metcalfe County girls tennis team enters today’s final round of play in the Fourth Region Tournament in contention for the title. Lady Hornets in running for 4th Region crown By JOHN VERSER Glasgow Daily Times GLASGOW — The Metcalfe County girls tennis team enters today’s final round of play in the Fourth Region Tournament in contention for the title.
The Lady Hornets have a total of 11 points entering the final round and trail the leader, Greenwood, by just one point. Metcalfe’s doubles team of Callie Jesse and Kendra Clark are in today’s finals against Greenwood’s Mary Pennington and Katherine Wentworth. Aspen Edwards, the fifth seed, is in the singles finals against Greenwood’s Jaclyn Otis, the fourth seed. “It feels great,” Metcalfe tennis coach Matt Shirley said. “I couldn’t have asked for anything more out of my girls. They played some extremely tough competitors. We’re just lucky to still be in it.” On the boys side, the Glasgow doubles team of Brett Flener and Joel Padgett are in the finals as is Metcalfe’s Trey Shirley in singles play. Both boys and girls singles and doubles finals are scheduled for today at Barren County High School. They will begin between 3:30-4 p.m. Edwards was the surprise on the girls singles side, knocking off top-seeded Hallie Pennington of Greenwood in her first match of the day, 6-4, 6-0. “We were a little worried about that one, but she’s been playing really well lately and I knew she could do it,” Matt Shirley said. “We’re happy with that one.” Edwards then defeated third-seeded Erin Henry of Bowling Green, 6-2, 6-2, to punch a ticket to today’s final. Edwards will face Greenwood’s Jaclyn Otis in the final. Otis defeated Metcalfe’s Megan Stephens, 7-5, 7-5, in the semifinal round. Jesse and Clark, the second seeded doubles team, opened with a 6-1, 6-1, win over Bowling Green’s Anne Thomas Donnelly and Amanda Wilson in the quarterfinal. The Metcalfe duo then bested Barren County’s Hilary Rickard and Laura Ross, the third seed, in the semifinals, 7-6, 6-3. Trey Shirley has breezed through competition thus far in the tournament. Metcalfe’s top boys singles player, the fourth-seeded Trey Shirley defeated Franklin-Simpson’s B. McCreary 6-2, 6-0, in the quarterfinals, before winning 6-0, 6-0 over Russellville’s Cooper Ray in the semifinals. In all likelihood, Trey Shirley would have faced Greenwood’s Robert Hall in last night’s semifinal, but Hall retired due to injury before his scheduled quarterfinal match against Ray. “You hate to see anything happen to a player,” Matt Shirley said. “Robert Hall went out of the tournament and I think gave these other players a boost, because they all realize they don’t have a chance against Hall. “But against each other, it’s some pretty close competition. You’ve got Chris Ardery and Eric Morosa and Trey that are pretty much right there together. So it should be a good match up between Trey (Shirley) and Ardery in the final.” 
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